Helena Mennie Shire

Song, Dance and Poetry of the Court of Scotland Under King James VI

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the song repertory and two poets, Alexander Scott and Alexander Montgomerie, in sixteenth-century Scotland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780521148290
• ISBN-10: 0521148294
• Artikelnr.: 31386921

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: court-song of sixteenth-century Scotland
1. The ballatis preserved
2. The making of court-song
3. Alexander Scott (c.1525-c.1590) and traditions of court-song, dance and ceremony
4. Musicians and poets at the court of King James VI
5. The poet, the cherrie and the King: a reading of 'The Cherrie and the Slae'
6. Montgomerie and music
7. Younger Castalians: a court-tradition of poetry and song-making continues
8. From court to castle
9. The last Castalian: Sir Robert Ayton
10. Epilogue: courtly song in seventeenth-century Scotland
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.